Head of Platform Engineering

What you'll do:

• Establish and lead a brand new Platform Engineering team dedicated to managing Octopus Energy’s internal infrastructure and application hosting environments
• Build and manage a high-performing, inclusive team of 2-3 engineers with potential to scale.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including the Data Platform team and Engineering teams.
• Design and maintain reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS).
• Drive key initiatives involving container orchestration (Kubernetes), observability, security, and CI/CD.
• Establish best practices in platform engineering and foster a servant-leadership culture focused on empathy, empowerment, and collaboration.
• Work with your peers and colleagues at Octopus Energy’s Sister-company, Kraken, to migrate ownership of projects from Kraken to Octopus

What you'll have:

• Proven experience leading or managing a platform, DevOps, or infrastructure team.
• Deep familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Python.
• Experience managing large-scale, distributed, customer-facing systems.
• Comfortable working in high-ambiguity, fast-paced environments where you drive clarity and decisions.
• Strong collaborator and communicator across technical and non-technical teams.
• Empathetic leadership style, capable of building trusted relationships across the business.

What will help:

• Previous experience in leading technical delivery for small, highly-autonomous teams
• Track-record of effective collaboration with other teams and departments to drive holistic outcomes
• A proactive, innovative mindset with the ability to drive continuous improvement


Familiarity with some of our tech stack:
• PostgreSQL, or a similar RDBMS, particularly in Amazon RDS at scale
• Docker and Kubernetes, we use Amazon EKS in production
• Python
• Datadog, or a similar logging/monitoring tool
• Messaging queues, event-driven async processing or similar technologies - we use RabbitMQ
• Terraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool
• Experience with a Linux distribution

💚 Why else you'll love it here

• 💰 Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• 🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We were recently named the UK's top company to work for, and we ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership
• 🎁 Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits